Had to start somewhere.

Why not add one to the list?

There are no 1000 Best movies ever made. At last count I have identified only 132.5 "Best" movies, the .5 being a short subject.

This list is bogus. It doesn't include "Rancho Deluxe" which is in the top ten of my list.

they've made a 1000 good movies?

well, i suppose it all depends on who you talk to.....

didn't say 1000 good movies, 1000 best movies. That's simular to saying that if you graduated in a class of 1000 you're in the top 1000 of your class. :D

I stopped after the A's. They didn't include "Alien" or "Alice in Wonderland" (disney) so they're already wrong. ;)

I didn't find "Enter The Dragon" so the list is crap!!!

They listed Bullitt but not Easy Rider.
What kind of list is that?
:-)

Mike

I noted some rather striking omissions: Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood), Tree Colors trilogy - Red White Blue (Krislowski), Salt of the Earth (Herbert Biberman), Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa), The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) and Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky) are not there.

On the other hand, I was impressed to find Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple) listed - a great piece of cinematography.

Lists are the thing with online communities nowadays, but most fail to narrow down and clarify their criteria. And thus the lists produced become rather useless.

A meaningful list would be The Arts and Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films™. It is of course a narrower type of list which will exclude a lot of great movies but it is useful when you are looking for that kind of thing. For general best films lists I would rather go to IMDB. It is more statistical and also more current than that of the NY Times.
Tor

I give up.

Note to self: Never post anything like this again.

Yes, how can they possibly leave out Shawshank Redemption? I don't think I know anyone who wouldn't put it in their top ten, and many of us would put it in the top one.

Mark

Sling Blade?
Mississippi Burning?
Oh Brother where art though?
Mystic River?
The Shawshank Redemption?

Just a few missing.

I kind of liked "Kaptain Kronos" professional vampire hunter and "The Naked Prey" which had spectacular photography.
JJK

Didn't need to read beyond the As, they list Aliens, but not the original ( and the only ) Alien movie worth mentioning. Alien was as close to perfection in that genre, Aliens was just another crap movie with soldiers shooting at something.

Looks like this thread is going to turn into the "1,000 movies that Vegas Forum members think are the best but did not appear on the NY Times list of the 1,000 best movies." The fallacy of this excercise is that each member will want their pick to appear at the top of the list. This is pointless.

i don't normally make "Top X List" where things need to be in an order, except perhaps if something is my favorite. :)

But I don't care where it lists!

The fallacy of this excercise is that each member will want their pick to appear at the top of the list. This is pointless.

You're absolutely right John but that's the fun of any "Best Of" list :-)

My guess is that no one bothered to read either the Preface by Peter M. Nichols where he said "Choosing "The best" of anything leaves room for endless argument, and readers undoubtedly will have their own additions and deletions." or the Introduction by A. O. Scott where he said "Though its title may invoke the authority of The New York Times, this collection is more likely to start arguments than to settle them, argument being one of the solemn duties of criticism and, more importantly, one of the great pleasures of movie-going."

Mike

Having so many lists to choose from just makes me listless.

:O[~]

First glance at the list thought they had excluded cult movies - no Plan 9 or Rocky Horror Show.... But then I saw Night of the Living Dead, RepoMan, and SpinalTap. Go figure. No predicatbility on critics' tastes.

Course!!! You beat me to the punch line ;-( ........... ;-)